Yes, logic is a human invention. So is your faith, but that's another issue. If you can't put your trust in logic, what *can* you put your trust in? One answer is faith, the answer you've apparently chosen, but faith in what? There's no general agreement in the world on matters of faith, there are many different faiths and the arguments used to sustain and justify them simply aren't compelling, otherwise there would be general agreement. Why, for instance, should I think you're right and selfsame is wrong, or vice versa? You both produce exactly the same arguments all the time, which really amount to no more than "My book is right." You can have your faith, I can have mine, and there's no way I can transfer mine to you or you can transfer yours to me. In matters of logic there *is* a method of transfer, and it *is* compelling.
The skeptic's mantra, one of the few bits of good advice in the Bible:
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good."
-1 Thessalonians 5:21
I've always felt much empathy for Doubting Thomas, I think he had it right, and the multiple admonitions in scripture to trust the unseen over the seen and the blessings promised to those who believe without seeing are preposterous nonsense, that's not the way to understand anything. The only justification for accepting any claim as true is the evidence for it, and as Christopher Hitchens remarked long ago, what is claimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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